He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, and later joined the Grenadier Guards.

[3] After succeeding his father in the baronetcy in 1878, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as a Lord of the Treasury from 1880[4] to 1882 and as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1882 to 1885.

[5] In January 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Haversham, of Bracknell in the County of Berkshire.

They lived at South Hill Park at Easthampstead, now part of Bracknell in Berkshire.

There were no children from the marriage and the baronetcy and barony became extinct on Lord Haversham's death 10 May 1917, aged 81.